A June Bride Murder Case

Episode 18
Information
Title:	A June Bride Murder Case
Japanese Title:	6月の花嫁殺人事件 (Rokugatsu no Hanayome Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	June 3, 1996 June 12, 2010 (Remastered version)
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 8: Files 8-10 (078-080)
FUNimation version
English Title:	Wedding Day Blues
Dubbed episode:	Episode 19
English airdate:	June 23, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Kiyonaga Matsumoto
Suspects:	Atsushi Umemiya, Toshihiko Takasugi, Kazumi Takenaka, Kiyonaga Matsumoto, Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Conan Edogawa
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Bouquet
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Technical Director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation Director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Yu Mizushima as Toshihiko Takasugi Maya Okamoto as Sayuri Matsumoto Sezio Kato as Kiyonaga Matsumoto Urara Takano as Kazumi Takenaka Dai Matsumoto as Atsushi Umemiya Takumi Yamazaki as Friend Wataru Takagi as Forensics officer, Next Conan's Hint Naoki Makishima as Policeman
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Hijacked Department Store Case
Next episode:	An Elevator Murder Case »
List of episodes

Characters introduced

Kiyonaga Matsumoto
	Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Inspector Megure's superior

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Attempted Murder
	Location: Chapel Victim: Sayuri Matsumoto Suspects: Atsushi Umemiya, Toshihiko Takasugi, Kazumi Takenaka, Kiyonaga Matsumoto, Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Conan Edogawa Sonoko and Ran take Conan to the wedding of their old middle school music teacher. When went to check up on her, they discover that she drank a lemon punch tea that was poisoned by one of the 4 people she previously met.

People

Sayuri Matsumoto
	Victim (poison) 27 years old Bride Music teacher at Teitan Junior High Kiyonaga's daughter

Kazumi Takenaka
	27 years old Sayuri's college friend Toshihiko Takasugi's ex-girlfriend

Kiyonaga Matsumoto
	54 years old Police superintendent Sayuri's father

Atsushi Umemiya
	18 years old Sayuri's former student, Council President at Teitan High

Toshihiko Takasugi
	28 years old Groom Heir to the Takasugi group

CSI officer
	CSI member from Tokyo Police District

Policeman
	Policeman from Tokyo Police District

Resolution

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Conan found out who the criminal was and put Sonoko to sleep. Through Sonoko, Conan explained that the criminal had actually but in the capsule they found floating in the drink and the poison in separately to make it look like the poison was but in 15 minutes before when it actually had been put in more recently. By looking at the video Ran took he showed that Sonoko had put her lemon tea right next the victim's and the criminal had put the poison in Sonoko's instead of the one the victim had been drinking. Proof of this was the fact that Sonoko's fingerprints were all over the can and 2 of the people that had touched the can did have their fingerprints on it.

The only 4 people that had been near the can after it was switch was Sonoko, Ran, Conan, and the groom, Toshihiko Takasugi. Sonoko and Ran had never touched the can after the switch and once they exclude Conan, Takasugi and the victim herself are the only people that could of poisoned the lemon tea. Then he explains how it couldn't of been the victim because there was no container to hold it in and drying agent found in the room. Those two things were needed to carry around sodium hydroxide, the poison used, because sodium hydroxide liquefies in a few minutes and the victim was in the room the whole time there would be no way to dispose of the container and drying agent outside in the hall where it was found. Therefore, the criminal was Toshihiko Takasugi.

The motive was that superintendent Matsumoto had crashed into a suspect's car 20 years ago, and Takasugi's mother and only direct relative got caught in the crash. Not seeing Takasugi's mom, Matsumoto told him to go away when he tried to tell him; 15 min later Takasugi's mom died on the street. Upon hearing this, Matsumoto admitted his share of guilt in the accident, but also added that once he learned about Takasugi's mother, he never forgave himself for inadvertedly killing her.

Takasugi was adopted by a rich family, and then destiny brought him back to Matsumoto and Sayuri. When he learned that his girlfriend was the superintendent's daughter, he was consumed by anger and bitterness, wanted to kill her to show the superintendent how much it hurt to lose someone he cared for. Kazumi Takenaka, however, slapped Takasugi and told him that Sayuri's first love was a boy who loved Lemon Tea and never forgot him after he moved away for undisclosed reasons. Once Sayuri started dating Takasugi and noticed he also drank Lemon Tea, she deduced what had happened in the past... therefore she did know that Takasugi was her lost first love, knew what he wanted to do to her, and willingly took the poison to atone for all the pain that transformed Takasugi from a kind boy to an embittered adult.

Later they were told that Sayuri's surgery was a success and that she was going to recover soon... even to the relief of Takasugi himself, who had genuinely repented from what he had done. He was given a light sentence due to Sayuri telling the judge about how she drank his poison voluntarily; three years later, Sayuri and Takasugi rekindled their relationship, and they got married for real.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Sayuri Matsumoto - Catherine McLaughlin
• Kazumi Takenaka - Celia
• Atsushi Umemiya - Johnny Umina
• Toshihiko Takasugi - Tony Tsugi

Remastered version

A remastered version of this episode aired on June 12, 2010.

See also

• Season 1